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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-8-4, Page 6Ma tag ng the 4ractor. My not ins nsidero'h'c experience with tractors has taught me that the eaeiing system is of eansldernble im- portanee, requiring more care than the average person would euppuse. 1 have had my ranee of troubles due to poor circulation. In bet wenthe'r I hal my tractor Is especially apt to ever - •hent, and if it is not looked into at once there is babble 'to be oericus trouble later, Most tractor overheat- ing i3 due to carelessnees st soma time or other, the results of which often do net show immediately. I have used• both types of radiators on farm tractors, and I bind that while the "honeycomb type will cool more effectively than the pipe system, so long as they ere kept in ,rood working order, honeyer-•rnb radiators get out of order ear0ier. The reason for this Is that most water contains limestone or ether mineral, which are crystal- lized by the haat. The surface through which ifie water passes in a 'honey - coma radiator being much smaller then in the other type, sediment will ledge muds sooner, causing clogging, As a preventive against clogging I find that soft water is mueh hotter than well water for tractor use, Ditch to river water should not he used ender any circumstances, as it always cenMite sea :trent. A funnel used in handling lubricants ehoald never le used to fill the rads- eine. It 3s ceetnin to carry oil in with the tater, which will farm a thin fi'rt al, ever the ccoline basset This fent will catch ani held ens- y saliment that 13 in the water, an 1 clogging is then well start e. I eleo aria t, , enti'r. n. .inst put- tinr I ran, .:: m. - 1, cr °tiler foreign €irhnt . 5.1 sell u:• it a.' ' While ..-. i'tnay t i 10, pie 1'' the i, ea pea are, :'t t^ ('0171... . , 1 rrwd r is • 1' : e'i :, ,:.'.. .. i + r . + 8 n tU t ; •.. 'l. it 11 t for t . -[. t c y. ,rah 1;:'„ I cl 1i tire, +1 T=„ i 1.:1•- t.; 1 ' .t,. the 1E li AIIm' the.,: r:'401:, •r_, t. r, r,.-. t.hcr+tUy,i.[g 0. t 71 r 11 z- .0 do but to' !sok,r$r , > srl •r y.'rt ''1, ::n+?r. Th Ia l ,mita , .s.. -', but it is '1 (i.e.:par than uy:nz a. new Teere are 71117.71)' .,titer things ,bat; villi cam t overheating en most trac-i, tors besides Boor circulation. But if the• cause is net removed at once, bad eirculafior. will result late:, .,wing to the fart that boiling crystallizes any mineaads it: the water. For that reason the radiator shoui.+i never be permitted to boil if it is pcesible to avoid it. The radiator should be kept full et 7111 times; as there is no -more cooling surface on the average tractor than is aiisalutely neees:±ary. Keeping the fan belt tight will help, too. One cif the worst things to cause' overheating is a slipping clutch. Thiel MAI be re.:ognized by a slowing up in, the traction, the speed el' the, motor remaining unchanged. When this ov-! curs. atop the meter at once and • tighten. up the clutch. Too much, too little, or improper grades of luhricat- ing oil often cause overheating. You can detn,t this by the smell and by the u• un eat an: int. cal smoke. Luhri- eatl ,r treu,,le mu•;,,- he corrected at tach t° aw.id damage to the muter. Bad vales eattit.gs will rause heating and lose of power, and are 11341700+E ti by a pol.::ar t :n sound of the ue- pic• ir 71 .1 y title smoke being le, e:, i - t' r::rgik the earhar•etee. 1;:.leehei ,.NI;nder head, gci.01- in,. `., .a;.0: 1il;,O:'ghly. mai 0emee- ir:! 014 .l roti , it<, ,1117 tri,:'oo te,.. 1 tits:.. 1 cause? °'rea'b0171.142' at t::rir ,. 'ills may he due to a time - Ler of muses --•broken• er defeetien' spare p1i,gs, pear wiring, chart sir tune and improper timing being the' worst offenders. Ignition 'trouble' alba]{a' he remedied' at once, as it will not got any ,better by neglect, and may' cause much expense later. Any type of tractor or motor with. whicli 1 have had experience will de- liver jts mexi num power only so long • as it is kepi properly coaled; and while many of Chess troubles named do not directly affect the tooling system, they will do 5o in time if neglected. With 'the present cost of operating a teac- e or, I finds it difficult to do se profit- Wbly, unless the repair roste are kept, down to a min rrlttrlil bi-•.;, Painted My- fsilo Before 'It Was It IBellt. 1 had 'art idea that silo -painting wee a difficult task, so when 1 put up my silo, sdx yefil+s ado I bit upon the pion of painbin$r o ltefore it Was pal. p. Tale may eetlpd like a fairy story, but it wo e out very enecessf, it, i� e � f} d. Teae. -ri e1 POP e 4Is!fill t n.l .p h1 sd,d eT silo aoutlero1]4. The }Pr ts7 � i mg ,ed e e 014?A]ltiAp e 1 light Wood atit #is alga tits I conceived MFQRT .NCE OF ,(PUBLICITY Secret of Scienti&c Feieding. The average so-called bred -to 1:'ty hen of the Mediterranean breed con- smes ::bout four ounces of send aged Hew the Fruit Tralde is Na. Oarh day, or /meal pounds a year, besides the ilea:awy green Peed tionally Served and chanes], gx:t: acid slain, With omit.' 91 nary care she will produce about ten V Benefited, a dozen (fifteen pounds) eggs during l cssibly few people ever atop to her first hi `in year, The average } g ,:be • 1. consider w fur one how deeply breed is ho a d o '-ma cd 'bre 1 •ccfthc,t.vt m .Y weight M � � u ; Deity Mata entered not only into ear about throe aacl ene�half pounds each,' the idea of pa'ntin; the silo before social life but into every day busi- therefore, the ilea eonsamea e''baut ' erecting 7t. zicas. Our forefathers went about, twenty: -six times her weight in solid I harLstored the lemma in an emptytheir affairs in their own way, kccp haymow. The lint rainy clary 1 see my ing note pereeps on the transactions little more than four times hop sixteen -year-old boy and hired man to cf their neighbors, but heeding little weight, or six pounds of Blain for painting the silo. It took them about in a practise] way of proceedings out-' each pound of eggs she;pr'educes, art hour to get started, but they sera side their immediate circle or district.' It has been proved that the iese made ug for ]cat time encs they scot If orders came. in from a distance, prolific layers have weak assintila- their system. going. They used for a prices were quoted and the 'goods, tion; therefore, the more food con, bench an old story box, six feet longknowledge with liethe le regard ortd' lesai sumed the weaker the egg -producing s and three feet he panels on the bench age current prices., aggregate or this is I fororga. s is to feed the hens ecome. The maccordingthere- The boy putt a pan s I I e, g and took them off while the hired man changed and facilities are forthcom-, their egg production, which can only did the painting. They span developed! ir;', for knowing what is -being paid be done by carefully trapnesting the a great deal of sgced. My son Neville: in the 'world's markets, In allele flock and segregating the prolific, open the crates, put the panels on one, words market intelligence has imp= stronger layers in a pen, away from end of the box, and take them painte•1' of the utmost tnportance to everyf the others, also cull out the second - off the other end, Ile then stood them man engaged in the sphere of .produe-t best layers end place them in a sep- on end to dryalong the side of the tion. Markets intelligence serviceareaare pen, 'leaving the poorest layers • barn, the second layer being: set out at, have been established at many centres:i m the third pen. Feed' the 'best lay - the bottom about two inches, so oath and, so far as Canada is concerned,, ors their regular amount of the same layer could dry uniformly. especially especially at Ottawa. One of the , kind of feed they have been aocus- I don't know how much of a job it most useful, as well .as one of the: tamed to (about four ounces a day is to paint a silo, but I do know how:most neoessary, is the service 3n con-: to each hen), reduce the rations of long it would take a first-class painter rection with the federal Fruit Branca.: the next best lot to about three and b The hired man and my Sixteen years ago the branch con- one-half ounces. The third pen or to do the job. � son painted our 14x30 -foot silo in just mental issuing monthly reports from, poorest layers should be fed about six hours per coat. They applied two] June to October, showing commercial' three ounces a day. eoats in addition to the wood preserves-( fruit conditions, crop reports and Carefully note the increased nunt- tive, which I will leave out in my cal- I market values. These consisted of • ber of eggs in the different pensand culatlons. Several painters told mei only a few mimeographed sheets. Asi gradually add to the rations in pro - that it would take two good painters; time went by it was found that these' portion to the number of eggs laid. a day to put on each coat after the were neither instantaneous or full! The 200 -egg hen will require nearly silo was erected. The greatest time i0' enough. The reports were therefore, six ounces of solid food a day. The used in putting up scaffolding. In most' increased in size until now they com-, grain feed, except the mash, should instances where speed is desired, and prise from twelve to erbcteen printed: be fed in a good, clean litter which an extremely high work, a swinging pages, detailing fruit crop conditions! should be at ,east six inches deep. scaffold would be used. lin Canada, the United States, and .all: Thus, the hens are forced to exercise. Now for the figures to prove that I competing countries. Notes are also: This promotes vigor and utility. The made money. It would cost to -day,' given on transportation, the package! proportions of the grain fed in tiie two days' labor fox two painters, or situation, insect and fungous d1seasee. litter should be trade to conform to $28, not considering the paint. Now,; and other relative natters. The data; the climatic conditions; for instance, what did it east to paint it before it: for these reports are supplied by' during very warm weather, less corn ' was erected? The hired man was get-, federal and provincial officials and by: should be fed, and vice versa when ting $80 a month, and the boy $40 per; the Canadian Fruit Trade Commis-, the weather is cold. However, it is month. At this rate the tabor cost'' stoner in Great Britain. Apples being safe to feed a well4balanced scratch for paintire: tic Filo i,efcre it was put the foremost exporting fruit from this; feed for the morning meal. ;: wee jc.f. $1, 1•,::!h makes_ a saving' country receive particular attention,: The mid-day food should be a mash, eele. Yee Y:.,y ;it;: that 1 eculd A telephonic news letter is also is-, neither wet nor dry, but just enough : p 1 t:.c :i'., :need?, even if cued every Monday and Thursday! liquid to moisten the mixture whieh we, ; ent ae, wail.] he imp'es-; during the fruit shipping season, In should consist of ono part wheat bran, Y.1'.k f n:_', !r;: I Cit ave for many addition special circulars are lis-' one part cornmeal, one part hulled eta, •:rn.':r-. Very few farmers' trihuterl bearing on special matters,' oats. Add enough flaxseed -meal to 1 , t, 1 t , en. uge In eeeeh the =uch as tariff routings, tear supply,' allow a teaspoonful for each ]ren, a ,. , ' ire and l t k-. �. it is, ocean space, and so on tablespoonful of salt, and a like am-. ;rt Illya. eeealet, to pal, a silor I ount of flowers of sulphur, Should ire 'oat a lealei. A "winging r al`, h3 added for 100 hens. Stir the mixture . net t bo f+,.:r,.t to many faram.:ail Booming the Export Bacon thoroughly before the liquid (prefer- ably few +ar r,. wt,nM corn tot r ably sweet milk heated to scalding c cnt-. The great malar:tl: venial pay; TYadet temperature) le added. The flaxseed, the extra $24 rather than risk heir. Necessity knows no law add while' meal and the sweat milk are valuable liver t n a t-cv: sing scaffold. I the war was on speedy delivery of the! esubstitutes for meatmeal. Do not feed Antic't advantage I found was in; articles needed was oftentimes of I more of the mash than the hens -will trimming the silo. This advantage aria more consideration than the price.' clean up readily. ekes ,,nay to panel sites. I was able Besides, there were immense losses The evening meal should consist of to have the rills platted white, ei die-; through the submarines which in -i equal quantities of cracked corn and tinotive style in si10-trimming. The, crea.<.•ed both the demand and the: wheat; but where the nights are very average sae looks very' bare and plain' urgency. Now that trade is returning: warm, the corn should be eliminated. if painted a solid color. It is next to to something like its normal condition, When the nights are very told feed impeerible to have it any other way, price and quality have again become the cracked corn exclusively. Bear in unless it is painted before it is built.1 the all-important consideration. In mind that inferior feed of any kind I 'believe that I had the most attrae-! recognition of this the Live Stook is not profltalble at any price. tine silo in cur community after it had Branch at Ottawa, in conjunction with been painted in this manner. 1 the provincial departments of egri- Bees Help Fruit Growers. Though I am not an expert painter,! culture, are making extra efforts to Failure of some varieties of apples I can offer a few hints that may prove maintain that quality in Canadian helpful in doing outside painting. I; bacon that years ago procured for it to set fruit maybe due to lack of pol- found that the wood preservative acted' a steady outlet in the British market. ligation. Some varieties of apples in a double capacity. I purchased a11iThe prime importance of these efforts are self -sterile, and cross pollination is absolutely essential if a set of fruit is to be obtained. Other varieties are the preservative my dealer ,had, *Well! is proven by the fact that in the eal- was only enough to cover about one -I ender year 1920 our exports of bacon third of the silo. I put these panelsreaehed the respectable total of $34, - nn the lower part of the silo. After: 000,000. As a step ire the direction six seasons I am satisfied that the, indi°aied end to stimulate interest in preservative was a profitable invest- i the type and quality of hogs that pro - meet. My only regret Is that I could: duce the kind of bacon acceptable to not buy enough to cover the entire" the British consumer, attractive surface. I can easily pick out the! prizes are to be offered for competl- panels that were treated with preser-i tion between members of the boys' vative, as they are less in need of and girls' pig club who enter exhibits paint than the others. I at the school fairs. One abject in this The explanation is that in painting' undertaking is to encourage the tom - new wood it should first he primed. munity spirit, whieh is justly regard - The ':ores are open, and absorb 80 ed as the greatest force in promoting ankh more of the oil than the color uniform and profitable production, pigment that the calor is left an the Judging eontests will be a feature of surface without enough 41 to hold it. the competitions. An appeal is made (.:onseq:,er.tly it soon wear; off. Same not alone to the local farmers but to painters take paint with an equal the pecplo generally to do all that is ani,,u,:: of 1110771-3 oil, and apply it passible to all hi the movement so to hew ward and allow it to dry we:1 that Canada may secure and maintain bef,,r' putting on the, fleet coat. W e the premier position in a market fhat weak preservative the carr remits imports five hundred million pounds are obtained as with a primer, olid g of lemon annually, the east is less. Besides, there is the advantage of preserving the wood international Standards for from the destructive action of the silage juices, Eggs, Brushes cost sa ninth now that it Increased consumption was one of pays to takeeare of them, When they the chief topics of discussion at 'the are to be kept overnight I remove as last International Poultry Convention much paint as peesible by rubbing on held in London, England, in 1919, lay an old board, then hang them In water. resolution of that convention the clif- Tbls is important, as the bristles are feront governments were requested to easy to get out of shape if simply name delegates to a committee to con- 'pla cerel in the water, It le not a wise aider the question of international hilae to keep them in water more than standards for eggs as a basis for In- a day oe ewe, If brushes are to be creased consumption. We commit - kept for a long period of time, I dean tc:e, representing fifteen different 'them with turpentine gasoline, then count: les, met some months later, re- wash thoroughly witil warm w ter and vicwol the entire situation, discussed soap, anti hang iv to dry, f l ant tentative standards and 'took note of going to use there again in a week or eggs graded in ,accordance with exist - ewe, I dip them in kerosene, painting ing etenderds, '`his ,00mptittee will tate on an *board, then hang them male, its final report at the World's in a pail of kerosene. Before I use Poultry Congress to be held alt tha them again I alw•a•rs remove the coal Hague, Holland, next month, Mr, y� A. Brown Chief' of the Nuttier1?Ji "' vision, at Ottawa, testi es that during An efficient attractive 8layse is en the deliberations of the committee, economic asset for the farmer, not: Granada's standards for eggs formed useless extravaganee as some taint to the basis of dlstusaiant fumed 9e they the-Idaare upon quality,ed ibd tYr and mien- ta• le weedy' the salient elementthe anyfool ' r t The e ofo slue T display P y p Canadian e • ed in ac o s eosd- Carl gr g d nee 76.41 that p stens grdis was care- fully {iruplp ed sled ,favorably cam- t e})'* npon, The us itang d,' 3 of (huma sight, under llerffet condi ions, is eyeraefeel at 45 miles; Irom • e top a# Moupt Everest tt. SOD eines slice digtarrte Would ilwi Ars)te:.. only partly ,self -sterile, •and again cross pollination la necessary. What is true of apples also ap- plies to other tree fruits—such as peaches, plume, cherries, etc, A• bee - less country must in time surely mean a fruitless country. The numerous white, showy, flower - clusters act as a guide to the insects, surd may attract then, far away. When a bee alights on a flouter, the insect's hairy body may be covered with pol- len from another variety of apple. As the bee works its way down to the bottom of the flower to get the nectar, it rubs its dusty body against the organs of the flower and cross-pol- lination is accomplished, Weather conditions during blossom time have moth to do with the setting of the fruit. If the weather is clear and warm, bees are active and cross- pollination proceeds rapidly; wet, cloudy and cold, the insects are not active and usually a poor set of fruit is secured, Strong, cold winds may often prevent the bees front cross- pollinating ono side of the apple trees and this may account for the set of fruit on only one side of the trees, Actual counts tante observations at blooming time .have shown that the honey -bee is decidedly the rest im- portant insect in the work of'poilinat ting the fruit flowers. Many counts have shown that from seventy-five to ninety per cent. of the insects pol- linating the •blossoms were honey - beat. For a Stall Floor. In the 014 horse barn fatiler tared blooko cut dram eta posts or railer t4 floor the stalls. Whlen bussing wood Wecut up a number of ,blocks eight inches long. The dirt doer wee dug to allow for a base of 'gravel teff <sop with it aglid 9tishljon three, ,trio a d .eeP, A ,bjpdor of 1'x8-ineh timbers ,was nailed to the walls to frame the Meeks in. xt'lr 1a s were t b se on end arid pp Cil a trimtnea fel fit ae timely set possible, The craoke were filled withan a. s d Well tamped. This gave a good Oleg) eervieeable floor and ono Ibat weer en easy onhorses•oa 00mcreto, accords- ing to our experistrtas.-400 1, 11, .. The Conunani% That Ran' it Movie ?.. .. The young people of our temenunity had been for some time attending the moving pieturee in our nearest 'town, when one of the girls said to 'her mother; "I wish you would go with us''to roe the pictures some night" "Why doyou want mato go?" asked the mother. "Because;' 'replied her daughter, "I don't like the pictures es ntuoh as I did and I have been wondering what you would think of them," Being a woman of rare judgment, the mother said, I1] go with you to- morrow night," and kept her word, On her return • front the perform- ance, the mother lay awake a. long, Long time. She had not liked' one of the pictures and wondered what could be done to combat , this 'undesirable feature. When morning carne she had a plan definitely formed, end that afternoon she called at every house in the community, inviting the mothers to meet at her home the next after- noon, bringing their sewing' with them, if they chose to do so, Curiosity and conjecture followed and the ,next afternoon found every one of those mothers at the appoint- ed place. When all the .guests had arrived, their hostess told them of her conversation with her daughter and her subsequent visit to the moving. - picture theatre, then described in de- tail the picture that had' dieturbed her. Her audience were both surprised and perplexed. They discussed' the subject at length from every point of view, and' finally decided bleat as mov- ing pdeturea'had taken • such a hold on the people of this day and generation the pictures had marvelous.possibil- ieies, and could be an influence for either good or evil The women also realized that it would be almost im- possible to keep their young people away from the /pictures and finally de- cided o-cided upon a moving picture house for their own Community. The co-operation of the men was next sought and i'he women found them open to convicition and ready to help in every possible way. Finding that •a good moving picture machine cooed be bought for $1,000, fifty men were asked to loan $20 each for the THE FAMILY TIE purchase of the bnachine, and the res1onee WW1 anenimollp. An old acheolbouse wllip"lr was to ]lave b0en t0r11 dawn was repaired and' put •3r' pro' 0)' alder. Thar women made 'e youth sa do not realize lire p stz+cngbh of rho family bio, just �becausv' a curtain and; the maolr'lne was placed. it is ever -'present and all-enfolding,I Arrangements were made for Rear Tho new and transient connections o>r, Rear- ing prover but •in'toresting pictures, sympathy anal afflntty that wv axe sa the young people atten'cied to the widely forming seem tor us more im-, tickets and the management of the pterion, and more 770141 than the ties ntaehin0, while inothars and daughters, of blood, It astonishes us. to find' that fathers and sons, all ettendod the we ran eoefide in our friends much performances, mOTe fres] than we can :c •f d t Those who owned talking mealtimes Y i It t v e ay he loaned them for rho performances, at- memberat of our own family. The boy. t'houg'h, later on, when the success of er girl that we have ltown• six months six t as assur'eel a second- seems nearer than our brothers and the m e v men w eiders, male nearer than our fathers . (nand srddd rrrusi- and mothers; he `seems to feel, to cions ofpfatheowas commauniety tooandlsthe turas in want what we avant, when the people playing. at home aro likely to smile at our lit - One evening, after the pictures had -tie confessions and evidently and com- pletely misunderstand. It puzzles us. Are all fam7lies like that? Is home quite what it should be? Life flows erg, and we find that some- how friendships dip away,. Absence causes terrible breaks and changes. The voice that seemed to echo every sentiment of eup hearts' grows care- less and remote. The ear that was always open has beeome indifferent, distracted Iby a thousand utterances that flow from other tongues than, DIM. Tastes change and friends change with them. Those whom we loved and who we thought loved us, and who did love us, form new ton- nections of their owe, end if we are not forgotten we at least experience that ehl'ling of tenderness which is almost worse to bear than its failure. if the women would contribute ogre- Then it is that the family tie makes fourth, and the young folks 'paid the its gentle strengthetfelt. Just bemuse remaining, one-fourth. The returns rte h el Inde nit find thatitcan break- front suppers autd a fair provided the stretched indefinitely without break- fourtlr paid by the women, while tba''mg, and still and always draws us young people made up their partite back. Perhaps our brothers and sisters bbyy giving a few plays and a very en- did, not quite understand ua; but we vi contort. are not so sure as we were that any- 'EveryoYable member of that little corn- one else ever did. At any rate, we munity attends the meetings held in' thofindughts, that with old the faces,poof yearsgold the old sehoolheuse. The movingis-j thoughts, old old' voices grow tures shown there are often edlrcaton-± wonderfully sweet. And we see— , alas, how often too label—that the tie al, and always enjoyable. The perple- of bleed is the one that lasts longest have 'become better acquainted with nn l by ds stranest of any in ',the one another and ]]leis] is a ntighb0r-. world. For the tragedy comes when linoss which ie admirable; in fact, -aft.a , e tlo not learn to prize the; e' who comandmunonityone -'isWants happyto and'leave pit.rw5•perous, wthem. loved us most until we have lost he. beer] shown, one of ihe'boys suggest- ed than: chairs lee placed against the wall and the floor cleared for dancing. The elder people agreed and wisely refrained from showing their disap- proval of the modern daneee. Later on, they cl'a'imed the flour and were i tsoan engaged irs the 'vax ons move - menta of the old-fashioned "square dances," and other singing .games, It was no time before tine young folks joined there, and .mothers were sought as partners by their sons, while fathers claimed• their daughters. The plan has +been working for two years; the old sd'hoolhouse has been tlheroug'hly Topa—ire/ea new floor and a Platform or ,stage being not the least of the .improvements. The men, of the community agreed• to contribute half the Bost of the picture machine Watch Your Money Grow. On July 31, 1833, Horace Smith. walked into the bank ofhis village and deposited a $6 bill. It immediate- ly began compounding at a very low rate of .interest. On November 12, 1912, over seventy-nine years •Inter, the bolder of Mr. Smith's :bank -book withdrew the sum ,of $112.47, and on June 8, 1920, closed the account with a further withdrawal of $134.46. No money had been deposited other than the erigdnal $6 bill, but in eighty- seven years it had multipllied about fifty times and grown to the total sum of $246.93. Of course, Horace Smith died long before the account was closed. More= then likely he forgot all about the existence of this nest -egg. 'Yet it Is easily poselble for any young man to save enough before he is twenty five to nuke him free from financial worry at sixty-five. And it is better than a fifty-fifty propee tion that he will be alive to enjoy the results of his foresight, 'Statistics show that out o3 every 100 men who pass the age of ten years, fifty-eight will be living at 'sixty, and fifty-one will eti11 be mingling with other folios at sixty- five, A saving of $60 a year, or $6 a month, if persisted in for twenty years and compounded at fivo per cent. would amount to the snug little sum of $2;088. An additional ten years would .bring the amount up to $4,186, and if saving at this rate were continued for forty years the com- fortable tiguro of $7,610 would be realized.. le a man does not want to cbligate himself to save any specific amount year by year, he still has little excuse for poverty at sixty-five, •be- cause a total of $1,000 placed at 0001 - pound interest before the age of twenty-five will return no lees than $7,040 at the end of forty years. The fractional per cents, of interest should not be 'overlooked. If the $1,001 above mentioned were compounded at five and one-half per cent. instead of five per cent., the sum at the end of 'forty years would be increased by $1,478. Agriculture is the backbone of the nation, and it's a backbone made up. of at least three vertebrae—a fertile soil, an 004318e 'brain, and an active body. How many crops aro there that oast !beat 826 tons to t'he acre? With lee eight inches thick, that would be the acre yield of a well harvested pond or crook, The commercial value would live/ago about 3 a ton, '[That would rnatli+e ata acro et ice worth $2,478. Of course, farnlere would not expect to soli the ice for that, and would need only a ental] part of an acres But at 377 w t the leo might cost 1Jh ha � farmers if they had to buy ft during the sizzling clap; of this summer, Turing warm weather tii'e use of lee in cooling milk and cream dor elik - ment if afters themeats of seeing these prod els .from imolai*. do . Milk + 0 00 • m tore of 41-0014 b t led. tarn to pexis e a loWer before be- g degrees; or en - v W e i g ship,ed, to insure its being sweet when 1t arrives at its destination, Little Candle sly My Bed. Little candle by my bed, You're a lovely thing, Sometimes like a lily tall, Blooming in the spring; Sometimes like a daffodil On a hilltop far; Sometimes like a heaven .bright; Somethnes like a star] Sometimes, when the night is dark, Steadfast in your place, Lilco a small white angel near, 'With a shining fano. Hardiness of Young Trees. Owing to tendoney of yeung trees, to grow late in the fall there is great, danger from winter injury. If the• trees enter the winter with well rip- ened, mature wood they can with: aena a muck .greater degree of cold without, injury than when the branches are in 1 a green, sappy condition, caused by at late growth. By planting cover rams do the, orchard late In the summer or early+ in the fall, it is poselble to stepa growth in- the early dell, 'shish will permit the wood to !become thorough-; ly ripened and ]nature. In the east' such cover crops may be planted co es to live lhroug'h tho winter, and possibly be turned under In the spring and used as green manure. These' crops utilize in their growth a large amount of soil water up to the first frost, and tend to dry the sail This reacts on the trees, -cheekily; growth anal inducing early ripening of the wood. Tho Ideal savor crops €tarts promptly into growth ae aeon es planted, thus insuring an even stand to chock out weeds. It will therefore 'insure a heavy ground cover for the `'Minter, actieg us a protection to the Teets, serving me a protection against thawing acid freezing. No Time to Look It Is et good old saying, "Look be- fore you leapt' And yet, times comm *hen there Is no time to locec; you have to jump, and do it right ori', We found it so one clay, when We Were banking ,into a barn with a team and Wagon With ]lay -rigging on, Our bey, then loos than twenty-one, was en tine Waig+oll, handling tine reins, i Wtis daWn on' the ground watching the performance, It Was perfarouanee,ell right, 'The stringers under the bridge had become decayed and down went, the team, Wagon, boy arid .air, `Wonder what the average bey Would have done 1 Tintur 1py was no( of the average 802711 He. atttelc to the rigging and Went downh the wagon, liCn hest fled a to the horse;! quietly, so that they did not get elcclte+ll he did not slabs' any o?Gcitent+e3lt himself. . Anel who they itraelt the ']]ottani ho ]Coe down And calm to unread the' tangle, Because h@ had been PeeColr vary little t a nt- age #aro to tetim, lvagen or boy, It pays :to school one's self to meat thieve 'like that whirls come up sud- d'enty. • Sumtztec Rush to Arctic Oilfields. Plie rush to stsl1e oil claims in this Fent Norman, Northwest Territories, fields, has begun in carne::t, and each day now sees the tide of fortune sack, ors sweeping linrtlevarn tram Edmon- ton, Fort Meefurray, Peace Inver Cruising and other paints. The mareitore also include retiree of ex- perienced mineral prospectors hound' for the sub -Arctic in quest of geld. .Cvery town, hamlet, tradiug post and river is squirming with activity of ;nen striving desperately to be the first into the, Acetic with the breaking: of the We in the Great Slave Lake. Not since the gold rush of 1897 to the Klondike and Alaskan gold fields has there been sash an Immense nigra. ,tun, But the Odyssey of the Yukon is be- ing rewritten in the present rush lu terms of modern transportation. The tt11 seekers making their wog north travel In modern sleeping care to the end of the northern rallwaye and thence et comfortable river steamers and muter launehes. One Canadian oil company is .sending Its scouting parties into the territories In all•metill a61'Olilanea. Tho Moment the traveler leaves the river highway, however, be is face to face with the still unconquered North. Portages must be negotlatOcl with groat hardships for tbose who aro tosmeporting heavy ell illaclriirery, They get a taste of the 01100 frightful "latmOnton :Trail" to Dawson City, the grinimc,at joke et rho gold -seeking northlond, where luell di0d try the scores or went raving mad, and whore the eurvlvnrs who finally struggled through arrival at the Alaskan goid- feids on to two years late. But men have learned the emelt: of the North since then and have taken advantage of the experience, nova Canadian Mounted Pollee will not per- mit persans-to leave the "jumping aft" places !n is othis dose halt.'] they are pthhysicNallyrth fit, Properly 001111)11- pcd for a year's stay In the north country and well supplied lvltlt funds, The two chief ports of entry into tlto North are Peace laver, about 900 miles northwest of Edlnonton, and Port eteit1m'ray, almost an equal die. tame due north, eoolablilty In Church. Little Susie Waa taken to church by her mother for the first time, During the long sermon the child grew mare gad mare fidgety, and kept wiggling about; finally elle became were greatly jpterested In e, small tear In her drew, and, after bolting at tete abeorbedly for a little nettle, she jumped to 110r feet on the seat, and, tothe great lnortiflcatlou of her mother, cried out: "Has anybody in this crowd got a 141n?" The finest laces; { a a n the world Wold xre worth much more than their weight in gold, The wind tan not be relied upon as an agency to transferlsold •n 0 from i re0 a to la ire iuP1y t app o t'hrougllonrt blip ir`rtlratkt. 'Phis work most +be tta- coniplished by inmate, and the honey- bee is by adds the most important of them all •